中国转基因粮食作物安全认证的法律与公信力争议初探

Legal and Credibility Affairs of the Safety Certificate of Chinese GM Food Crop

农业部为国产的转基因玉米、转基因水稻发放了两轮农业转基因生物安全证书。但转基因粮食作物的安全评价中的一些处理方式引发了争议,如转基因粮食作物的试验场地能否达到安全要求,如何正面地回应部分科学家的质疑,评估用时的长短等。综合各种证据看,政府在转基因粮食作物安全评估过程中的立场还不够中立,论证申请资料公开透明度不够,参与安全评估的科学家与转基因产业利益链可能存在利益交集,政府对转基因安全性的表态有时存在前后矛盾,使媒体和民众对政府的公信力产生了怀疑,影响了转基因粮食作物的商业化推广。

The Ministry of Agriculture has successively issued the safety certificate of the agricultural genetically modified organism both for domestic GM maize and GM rice for two times. But the safety evaluation of the GM food crop raised some controversy,such as,whether the test site of the GM food crop can be up to the requirements,how to positively respond to the query of some scientists and the length of evaluation duration. Meanwhile,during the process of the safety assessment for the GM food crop,the government has no enough neutral standpoint,the publicity of the argumentation and application data is insufficient,there is interest relevance between the scientists participating in safety assessment and GM industry,the government attitude on the GM safety is inconsistent,which makes the media and the public doubting government＇s credibility and affects the commercialization promotion of the GM food crop.